Many years ago, to the delight of the Mike Glickmans of the day, Bing Crosby immortalized this plum piece of real estate in song. I'm gonna settle down and never more roam, he crooned. And make the San Fernando Valley my home . . . . A generation later, it was Frank Zappa, with help from his daughter Moon Unit, who would immortalize something else about the Valley. Like omigod like totally Encino is like so bitchin'.

"Dad, can I borrow the body of work tonight?" That, in a phrase, is the premise of Zappa plays Zappa, a concert enterprise in which Dweezil Zappa leads a band playing the music of his illustrious father, Frank Zappa. Though other associates have presented their versions of the curmudgeonly composer's work, this is billed as the first time it's been played live in its original form since his death from cancer in 1993.

** 1/2DWEEZIL ZAPPA. "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama." Chrysalis. If you want to know the difference between 18-year-old Dweezil and his notorious dad Frank, don't bother comparing the son's version of the title song with his father's 1970 original. It's a pretty straightforward rocker by Frank Zappa standards, and Dweezil only modernizes it a bit.

With the exception of the Go Go's, Erik Himmelsbach's androcentric list of SoCal's "most remarkable shows" ("What, No Depeche Mode?" So SoCal, June 13) excluded some great female performances. Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company closing a daylong festival at the Rose Bowl in the summer of '68; Laura Nyro's first gig at the Troubadour in October '69; Joni Mitchell on a bill at Pauley Pavilion with Frank Zappa and the L.A. Philharmonic (early '70s); Patti Smith at the Roxy (mid-'70s)

Keyboardist George Duke, one of the pioneers of the jazz-fusion movement that merged jazz, rock and funk in the late 1960s and 1970s, died Monday in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, his record label announced. He was 67. The Northern California native was one of the leading forces in bringing jazz and rock together, genres that not only were typically separate in the 1950s and early '60s, but whose proponents often were philosophically at odds.

We all want to know what's going on in those other houses, particularly if the occupants go against type. Today, our case is a mother, Gail, and her kids--Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva. The father was Frank Zappa, rest his soul. On a recent "Politically Incorrect," smirky Bill Maher had as guests Gail and Ahmet Zappa and Paul Kantner (of Jefferson Starship) and daughter China Kantner. The premise was that the Zappas and the Kantners represented atypical, countercultural families.

Those who know little else about the idiosyncratic Frank Zappa associate him with the San Fernando Valley because of his 1982 pop hit "Valley Girl," and his followers may know he maintained a studio/office in North Hollywood and a sprawling home just south of Mulholland Drive. But the rock musician, composer and social satirist, who died in 1993 at age 52, derided the role of Valley booster.